{"id":1366,"date":"2014-01-19T18:01:55","date_gmt":"2014-01-20T02:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/?p=1366"},"modified":"2022-06-07T22:30:32","modified_gmt":"2022-06-08T05:30:32","slug":"the-advantages-of-rhythm-first-songwriting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/the-advantages-of-rhythm-first-songwriting\/","title":{"rendered":"The Advantages of Rhythm-First Songwriting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Often, finding a rhythm that works is the hardest part of getting your songwriting process in motion. Once you have a really solid rhythm, you can shape the lyrics and music around it.<\/p>\n<p>By deciding on a certain rhythmic pattern, you&#8217;ll have a strong foundation for your composition. Think of different variations and consider playing an existing piece backward to find new rhythmic directions for your music.<\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/farm6.staticflickr.com\/5150\/5679587934_fabcb16b04.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"336\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Image via Flickr by KT Bell<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Often, finding a rhythm that works is the hardest part [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-songwriting-tips"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p31aST-m2","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1366"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1443,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1366\/revisions\/1443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/songregistration.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}